Automatic journal-oiler.



Patented Ian. 30, I900.

E. R. KlNNEY.

AUTOMATIC JOURNAL OILER.

(Application filed June 21, 1899..)

(No Model.)

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I II WE l lDlVlN R. KTNNEY, OF NORlVALK, OHIO.

AUTOMATIC JOURNAL-OILER.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,134, dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed June 21, 1899.

T0 00% whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN R. KINNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwalk, in the county of Huron and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Automatic Journal-Oilers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in automatic journal-oilers for car or locomotive axle journals and bearings, and has for its objects to provide an automatic journal-oiler, first, that may be readily applied to car or locomotive axle journals; second, that will keep the bearing-surface of the journal uniformly and constantly oiled; third, that will limit the oil to the bearing-surface of the journal and preventits escape and waste, and, finally, to produce an automatic journaloiler that will be simple in construction, durable, and economical in the use of oil. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view of the oiler as employed in car-axle boxes. Fig. 2 is a view in cross-section of the same through line m m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View in cross-section of the same through line 1/ 11 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, in which similar referencenumerals represent similar parts, 1 is the body portion of the oiler, which is preferably made of a metal casting, and consists of an open-topped rectangular box having transverse vertical rectangular pockets 2 at each end thereof, the space between constituting an oil-well 3, and having a base 4 integral with the box and as applied to car-axle boxes extended as flanges at the sides of the box, having incuts 5 in their outer edges, adapting them to engage the bosses of the support ing-bolts of the car-axle box when inserted therein, and thereby prevent lateral or longitudinal movement of the oiler when in operative position therein, the whole being of such dimensions and form that it may be readily inserted within a caraxle box of the form in common and general use in railwaycars or removed therefrom and be held in operative position by component parts of the car-axle box without change or modification thereof.

Into the bottom of pockets 2 are inserted Serial No. 721,284. (No model.)

springs 6, preferably made b0w-shaped, of flat spring-steel and of a length to allow free lateral movement of their ends when depressed. Upon the top of springs 6 oil-retaining plates 7 are inserted within the pockets, which are of dimensions adapted to allow free vertical movement thereof within the pockets. In their upper edges plates'7 are provided with semicircular incuts 8, in size conforming to the circumference of the axle, and the plates are made of such height that their incut portions are yieldingly held in constant circumferential cont-act with the under portion of the axle-journal by the pressure of springs 6. Plates 7 are also provided with orifices 9, in which an oiling-roller 10, having suitable journals 11 at its opposite ends, is journaled, the orifices 9 being so placed in the sides of plates 7 as to bring the roller 10 parallel with and vertically beneath the axle and extending lengthwise and centrally through the upper portion of oil-well 3, with the top of the roller in engagement with the lower portion of the car-axle journal throughout the length of its bearing-surface and the bottom of the roller within the oil-well 3, when the incutsS of plates 7 are in contact with the axle. Preferably roller 10 is covered throughout its length with any suitable absorbent material 12 adapted to be saturated with oil, although it will perform the function of uniformly oiling the bearing-surface of the axle without the use of such absorbent covering. Thus constructed the incut portions of plates 7 and the roller 10 are yieldingly held in constant contact with the axle-journal by the pressure of springs 6, and whether the oil be supplied by an oil-cup through the bearing or by having oil-well 3 filled therewith the roller 10 being revolved by its contact with the axle as the axle revolves thereby spreads the oil uniformly and constantly over the surface of the axle-journal, and the plates 7 retain and prevent the oil from spreading beyond the bearing-surface of the journal, and any excess of oil is returned to the oil-well 3, where it is taken up again by the roller, thus reducing the quantity of oil necessary to be used and preventing Waste thereof.

The plates 7 may be of any suitable material, but preferably they are constructed of hard wood or indurated fiber, which in the prising a body portion 1', having integral therewith a base-flange 4, and provided with 10 pockets 2 and oil-Well 3; oil-retaining plates 7,inserted within the pockets; an oiling-roller 10, jonrnaled in the plates, and springs 6 inserted in the pockets beneath the plates, all constructed, placed and operating as and for the purpose shown and described.

EDWVIN KINNEY.

Witnesses:

J. O. DIXON, ZENE HADLEY. 

